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Jenks planners approve minor land‑use map tweaks to reflect infrastructure limits
Summary
The Planning Commission unanimously approved minor amendments to the Jenks comprehensive plan that reassign several parcels to lower‑intensity single‑family designations and adjust a small strip along Highway 75 to regional commercial, citing sewer and utility limits.
The Jenks Planning Commission on Oct. 14 approved a series of minor amendments to the city’s comprehensive land‑use map aimed at aligning the plan with existing zoning and infrastructure constraints. The changes passed unanimously during the meeting.
City staff said the amendments respond to areas where the plan’s recommended uses no longer match on‑the‑ground conditions or likely build‑out given current utilities. "As for right now, we're asking you all to approve taking out all that red, making it low intensity single family," staff said during the presentation, pointing to a corridor on the west side of Highway 75 south of 91st Street where sanitary sewer does not extend.
Why it matters: staff and commissioners said the edits are intended to make the comp plan a practical guide rather than a formal zoning code, and to avoid preserving high‑intensity or regional uses where infrastructure and market realities make development unlikely. In the Highway 75 area, staff noted that water connections exist but sanitary sewer does not, and that lots in the Jamestown plat have yielded little development to date.
What changed: among the approved adjustments, staff recommended converting several parcels to low‑intensity single‑family where infrastructure challenges make higher density impractical, and changing a narrow portion along Highway 75 from parks and open space to regional commercial to better reflect adjacent zoning and anticipated arterial frontage. Other amendments include retaining regional commercial for a parcel east of the railroad that is tied to River District plans near the Simon Premium Outlets, and right‑sizing an area north of 131st to medium‑intensity single‑family to align with an earlier PUD.
Commissioners asked questions about whether particular areas were already tracked for development and whether the comp plan should match recent rezones; staff replied the amendments chiefly align the plan with existing zoning and the most likely development scenarios.
The motion to approve staff’s recommended minor amendments was moved by a staff presenter and seconded; Commissioners Wilson, Boris, Bowman, Stevens and Chair West voted yes. The changes were first presented to the commission on Oct. 14, 2024, and were returned to the dais after follow‑up questions were addressed.
